Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

If the work proposed to be done includes the laying of conduits, pipes, hydrants, or any appliance for the supplying or distributing of a domestic water supply, and the distribution of such domestic water supply in the territory in which the work is contemplated is under the mana…

Before requiring the plans, specifications and estimates provided for in Section 5130 the legislative body shall pass a resolution requesting the public agency having charge of the supplying and distribution of the domestic water supply in the district about to be improved to fur…

The legislative body may adopt the plans and specifications furnished to it, but may not modify or change the same except with the consent of the public agency furnishing the plans and specifications. If no agreement can be reached the conduits, pipes and other appurtenances for …

The public agency which supplies the plans and specifications may at all times maintain an inspector over the work to see that the plans and specifications which it has furnished have been complied with, and the cost of such inspection shall form a part of the incidental expenses…

After the work has been completed and accepted, title to the pipes, conduits, and other appliances for supplying or distributing water so installed shall vest in such public agency and constitute a part of its system supplying the water, and shall at all times thereafter be used,…

If any lot or parcel of land for which a bond has been issued is divided into two or more separate lots or parcels of land, including separate condominium interests, or if any two or more separate lots or parcels of land or separate condominium interests are combined into fewer l…

When it is desired that new bonds be issued, an application therefor in writing signed by the owner of any interest in any of the lots or parcels, including condominium interests, into which the original lot or parcel has been divided, or by the owner of the lots or parcels into …

Upon receipt of the application and fee the street superintendent shall apportion to each separate part of the original lot or parcel of land the proportionate part of the amount remaining unpaid on the assessment that would have been levied thereon had the lot or parcel of land …

When the apportionment has been made an application signed by all persons owning an interest in the original lot or parcel or lots or parcels of land and by the holder of the existing bond on the lot or parcel of land or lots or parcels may be filed with the treasurer requesting …

When the treasurer has ascertained that the application is signed by all the necessary persons he or she shall so advise the street superintendent. The street superintendent shall thereupon amend the recorded diagram and assessment to conform to the division or combination and ap…

The treasurer shall add to each apportioned amount a sum equal to 5 percent thereof but in no event more than ten dollars ($10) and shall make and sign a new bond in the same form as the existing bond, to represent each such apportioned amount, and the amount so added if the appo…

The bond shall be payable in installments at the respective dates of the payment of principal and interest on the existing bond, the number of such installments to be equal to the number of unpaid installments on the existing bond. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

No new bond shall be issued when the apportioned amount is less than fifty dollars ($50). If it is less, the apportioned amount shall be paid to the treasurer in cash for the benefit of the holder of the existing bond at or prior to the time of filing the application referred to …

Upon the surrender of the existing bond the treasurer shall deliver to the bondholder or his agent or assigns the bonds issued for such apportioned assessments together with all payments of cash which may have been made pursuant to Section 6487. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

Before the construction of any project, and before the calling of any election for the issuance of bonds, the commission shall employ one or more engineers, or contract for engineering services with any city within the district or with the county, who shall make all necessary sur…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8117, upon the completion of the surveys referred to in Section 8160 and upon recommendation of the engineer or engineers, in which recommendation shall be included the estimate of cost of each proposed improvement, the commission by reso…

Every owner or operator of a highway bridge which is open to use by the public, other than one owned or operated by any state or federal agency, city, or county, shall, on or before January 1, 1991, notify the city or county, or both, in which the bridge is located, of the existe…

The written consent of the owners of a majority in area of the land subject to reassessment shall be filed with the clerk of the legislative body before the legislative body shall have jurisdiction to confirm any reassessment under this division. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

Any owner of land subject to reassessment may file his consent in writing to the refunding and reassessment upon substantially the terms stated in the resolution provided for in Article 3 of Chapter 3. Such consent need not be in any particular form and no error or informality th…

Owners of land within the meaning of this chapter are those and those only who appear to be such upon the records in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the district is situated on the day that the consents provided for in this chapter are filed with the cler…

As to any land deeded to a city for delinquent taxes or for delinquent taxes and assessments, the legislative body of the city is authorized to consent to the refunding and reassessment. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

As to tax deeded lands the State Controller may sign any consent or consents to the refunding and reassessment for the State, and the board of supervisors of the county in which the property lies may consent to the refunding and reassessment by resolution. (Added by Stats. 1951, …

Executors, administrators, special administrators and guardians may consent for any property of the estate represented by them. Any trustee of an express trust of land other than as security for the payment of money may consent for all or any part of the land held in such trust. …

At the hearing on the refunding and reassessment the legislative body shall determine whether the written consent of the owners of a majority in area of the lands subject to reassessment has been filed or not and if it determines that such consent has been filed it has jurisdicti…

The validity, sufficiency, or genuineness of any of the consents, or the finding and determination of the legislative body thereon, shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless commenced within three months after the determination of the legislative body has been mad…

Except as provided in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 8340), the vacation of a street, highway, or public service easement extinguishes all public easements therein. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1050, Sec. 29.)

Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 8340) or in this chapter, upon the vacation of a street, highway, or public service easement: (a) If the public entity owns only an easement for the street, highway, or public service purpose, title to the propert…

(a) Except as provided in Section 8353, vacation of a street, highway, or public service easement pursuant to this part does not affect a private easement or other right of a person (including, but not limited to, a public utility, the state, a public corporation, or a political …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the vacation of a street or highway extinguishes all private easements therein claimed by reason of the purchase of a lot by reference to a map or plat upon which the street or highway is shown, other than a private easement of ingress a…

Whenever the commission shall deem it expedient to alter the established grade of any State highway, or portion thereof, within a city, the commission may by resolution declare its intention to alter such established grade, in which resolution must be briefly specified the grade …

Notice of such proposed change of grade shall be given by posting and publication of such resolution. Publication shall be made at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city in which the portion of State highway affecte…

Within sixty days after the completion of posting, any person may make and file at the place specified in said resolution his written objection to such proposed change in grade, setting forth the amount in which he claims that his interest in any real property will be damaged if …

After the expiration of such sixty day period, the commission may by resolution officially change and reestablish the official grade of said highway in accordance with such resolution of intention. (Added by Stats. 1935, Ch. 689.)

The department shall not make any change in the physical grade of said highway affecting any property as to which an objection has been filed until it has been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that the objection filed is without merit or until the probable …

In the event that such changed grade of a State highway fails to meet the grade of any intersecting or intercepting highway, the department is authorized and directed, at the same time, to do such work as is necessary in order to cause such intersecting or intercepting highway to…

If the legislative body of a public entity determines that property previously subject to a street, highway, or public service easement, title to which is owned by the public entity, is no longer needed by the public: (a) In the case of property owned by a local agency, the legis…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 8311, if a street or highway is vacated by a local agency under this part, or under any other law or under its charter, for the purpose of opening a new street or highway in lieu of that vacated, the legislative body of the local agency may, by resolut…

The purchase price for any property sold by the legislative body of a local agency pursuant to this article shall be paid into the treasury of the local agency to the credit of any fund, available for the same purposes for which the property was used, that the legislative body de…

The department may proceed as provided in this article to establish the boundaries of any State highway right of way where such boundaries are unknown or uncertain. (Added by Stats. 1935, Ch. 689.)

A right of way map shall be filed as provided in section 128, showing such boundaries as are claimed by the State. Such map shall delineate such boundaries to be established with sufficient detail to enable the lines to be located on the ground by survey. (Added by Stats. 1935, C…

After filing such map, the department shall publish a notice at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county wherein the unknown or uncertain boundaries are located. Such notice shall contain: (a) A statement that proceedings are being taken under this…

Within fifteen days from the publication of such notice, the department shall post signs along and approximately on the boundaries delineated on such map in conspicuous places and at intervals of not more than one-fourth of a mile, and in no event no less than three signs. Such s…

The department shall restore any such signs which have been destroyed or become illegible in the third month after the first posting. (Added by Stats. 1935, Ch. 689.)

Any owner of property abutting on any highway, the boundary of which is so proposed to be established, who disputes the correctness of the highway boundary claimed and so proposed to be established, must file his written objection at the place specified in said notice within six …

Any owner who fails to file such objection within such six months period waives his right to object and is conclusively presumed to have agreed to the boundary delineated on the map and the same becomes, as to his property, the agreed and established boundary of such highway. (Ad…

If an objection is filed the department shall not perform any work on the property claimed by the objector until it has been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that the objection filed is without merit or until the probable compensation has been deposited for…